PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cerebral Cortex, Suprachiasmatic Nucleus, Brain Death
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How are you doing? : physiological measures, things like heart rate, arousal, blood pressure, brain activity patterns, fmri, behavioral measures, conscious state based on how people behave, emotional unconsciousness, unconsciousness processes can affect emotion and motivation. Jet lag; west to east is much harder: people can adjust by an hour a day, night-shift work. Graveyard shift: serious industrial accidents usually occur at night: people"s awareness is not as effective when they"re supposed to be sleeping, critical for emergency services: cops, firefighters, as in jet lag, the direction of change is critical. Sleep to remember, sleep to forget model: you want to be well-slept so that you could remember everything and not have, sleep aspects of ptsd the emotional intensity associated with it. Increase alertness and mobility while decreasing reaction time: caffeine, coffee, tea, soda, over-the-counter pain relievers, nicotine, commonly used substance in the united states, smoke, tobacco, mimics action of neurotransmitters, muscular relaxation.
